E4 and More4 are now free - C4 soon
May 6th 2008, 10:09 am
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E4 and More4 are now free - C4 soon
E4 and its +1 service, and More4 and its +1 service are now FTA.
You do not need a sky viewing card to view these channels. They are now free to watch - as long as you have the relevant dish size!
Expecting Channel4 to go free in the next hour or so.
Also, ITV HD will not be available on Sky HD boxes for thre foreseeable future.
You do not need a sky viewing card to view these channels. They are now free to watch - as long as you have the relevant dish size!
Expecting Channel4 to go free in the next hour or so.
Also, ITV HD will not be available on Sky HD boxes for thre foreseeable future.
Last edited by The Guy; May 6th 2008 at 10:14 am.
May 6th 2008, 12:34 pm
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Re: E4 and More4 are now free - C4 soon
Update:
C4 on your Sky EPG channel 104 will not be going free for the time being.
You can get C4 (free with no Sky card) by
Services
4
4
10729
v
22.0
5/6
Find
navigate to 8350
press yellow
press select
The free channel 4 is then available via your serices other channels option.
The newly released in the UK freesat boxes look at the free siganl on 10729.
Sky boxes (EPG number 104)will still look at the "card required" signal.
It is unknown when the Sky EPG 104 will go free, probably later this year.
C4 on your Sky EPG channel 104 will not be going free for the time being.
You can get C4 (free with no Sky card) by
Services
4
4
10729
v
22.0
5/6
Find
navigate to 8350
press yellow
press select
The free channel 4 is then available via your serices other channels option.
The newly released in the UK freesat boxes look at the free siganl on 10729.
Sky boxes (EPG number 104)will still look at the "card required" signal.
It is unknown when the Sky EPG 104 will go free, probably later this year.
Last edited by The Guy; May 6th 2008 at 1:29 pm.
May 6th 2008, 7:04 pm
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Re: E4 and More4 are now free - C4 soon
E4 and its +1 service, and More4 and its +1 service are now FTA.
You do not need a sky viewing card to view these channels. They are now free to watch - as long as you have the relevant dish size!
Expecting Channel4 to go free in the next hour or so.
Also, ITV HD will not be available on Sky HD boxes for thre foreseeable future.
You do not need a sky viewing card to view these channels. They are now free to watch - as long as you have the relevant dish size!
Expecting Channel4 to go free in the next hour or so.
Also, ITV HD will not be available on Sky HD boxes for thre foreseeable future.
May 6th 2008, 7:19 pm
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Re: E4 and More4 are now free - C4 soon
Update:
C4 on your Sky EPG channel 104 will not be going free for the time being.
You can get C4 (free with no Sky card) by
Services
4
4
10729
v
22.0
5/6
Find
navigate to 8350
press yellow
press select
The free channel 4 is then available via your serices other channels option.
The newly released in the UK freesat boxes look at the free siganl on 10729.
Sky boxes (EPG number 104)will still look at the "card required" signal.
It is unknown when the Sky EPG 104 will go free, probably later this year.
C4 on your Sky EPG channel 104 will not be going free for the time being.
You can get C4 (free with no Sky card) by
Services
4
4
10729
v
22.0
5/6
Find
navigate to 8350
press yellow
press select
The free channel 4 is then available via your serices other channels option.
The newly released in the UK freesat boxes look at the free siganl on 10729.
Sky boxes (EPG number 104)will still look at the "card required" signal.
It is unknown when the Sky EPG 104 will go free, probably later this year.
Do you think Sky will ever make sky+ record function available without subscription card. I think it is so tight of them to block us from recording the free stuff to watch later. I read somewhere that pressure from competition might make them change their policy.
May 6th 2008, 9:01 pm
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May 6th 2008, 9:14 pm
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Re: E4 and More4 are now free - C4 soon
Not for a while, but i hear rumours that they may drop the £10 HD subscription for their clients who subscribe to their the Sports or Movie channels - Sky+ started like this first so who knows what wil happen in a few years.
Remember Sky are making you pay for providing a service provided by their EPG, which they have very right to do. If you do not want to use their service you can quite happily buy a HHD or DVD recorder to do the same job,
Similarly you do not need a Sky decoder to watch free channels on satellite. Any FTA decoder will suffice, but will lack the easy friendlyness of the Sky EPG (they only have now and next programme data, channel number not be the same as Skys, any frequeny changes you wil have to update the decoder manually), and they may not be effective to get those tricky weaker BBC / ITV signals.
So there is an alternative if you do not want to pay Sky for using their recording functions, but it is not as simple to use as the Sky EPG.
Last edited by The Guy; May 6th 2008 at 9:17 pm.
May 6th 2008, 9:51 pm
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Re: E4 and More4 are now free - C4 soon
Not for a while, but i hear rumours that they may drop the £10 HD subscription for their clients who subscribe to their the Sports or Movie channels - Sky+ started like this first so who knows what wil happen in a few years.
Remember Sky are making you pay for providing a service provided by their EPG, which they have very right to do. If you do not want to use their service you can quite happily buy a HHD or DVD recorder to do the same job,
Similarly you do not need a Sky decoder to watch free channels on satellite. Any FTA decoder will suffice, but will lack the easy friendlyness of the Sky EPG (they only have now and next programme data, channel number not be the same as Skys, any frequeny changes you wil have to update the decoder manually), and they may not be effective to get those tricky weaker BBC / ITV signals.
So there is an alternative if you do not want to pay Sky for using their recording functions, but it is not as simple to use as the Sky EPG.
Remember Sky are making you pay for providing a service provided by their EPG, which they have very right to do. If you do not want to use their service you can quite happily buy a HHD or DVD recorder to do the same job,
Similarly you do not need a Sky decoder to watch free channels on satellite. Any FTA decoder will suffice, but will lack the easy friendlyness of the Sky EPG (they only have now and next programme data, channel number not be the same as Skys, any frequeny changes you wil have to update the decoder manually), and they may not be effective to get those tricky weaker BBC / ITV signals.
So there is an alternative if you do not want to pay Sky for using their recording functions, but it is not as simple to use as the Sky EPG.
May 6th 2008, 11:06 pm
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Re: E4 and More4 are now free - C4 soon
[QUOTE=Satandpcguy;Similarly you do not need a Sky decoder to watch free channels on satellite. Any FTA decoder will suffice, but will lack the easy friendlyness of the Sky EPG (they only have now and next programme data, channel number not be the same as Skys, any frequeny changes you wil have to update the decoder manually), and they may not be effective to get those tricky weaker BBC / ITV signals.
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There are advantages though. Rather than being dictated to by Sky, you can place channels in whatever order you like, and delete all those annoying shopping channels etc.
A decent FTA receiver should be MORE effective in getting weaker signals
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There are advantages though. Rather than being dictated to by Sky, you can place channels in whatever order you like, and delete all those annoying shopping channels etc.
A decent FTA receiver should be MORE effective in getting weaker signals
May 7th 2008, 6:40 am
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Re: E4 and More4 are now free - C4 soon
but i, and many other installers, have tested a fair number of FTA receivers and have yet to find one that is acceptable in thir performance, especially in my area.....
